Scrapbook copy of the Obituary for Barbara Frances Besore dated October 1931. Mrs. Besore, Pioneer of County, Dies Resident of Urbana and Area Over 50 Years to Be Buried Today   Mrs. Barbara Frances Besore, widow of the late Joseph M. Besore, and a pioneer resident of the county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mae Bireley, 3 1⁄2 miles north of Urbana, on Route 25, at 9 o'clock, Saturday morning, after an illness of several weeks due to a complication of diseases. Her condition had been serious for sometime and the end was expected.   The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon from the Renner Funeral Home in Urbana. Rev. S. E. Fisher, pastor of the University Place Church of Christ, will be in charge of the services. Interment will be in the family lot in Olive Grove Cemetery near Mayview, beside the body of her husband.   Mrs. Besore was born in Greencastle, Pa., March 1, 1849, and was 82 years old at the time of her death. She had been a resident of Urbana and vicinity, for more than 50 years.   The survivors are six children as follows: Mrs. Mae Bireley, Urbana; Warren Besore, Indianapolis, Ind.; E. R. and Mont Besore, Champaign; I. H. Besore, residing east of Urbana, and C. E. Besore of Fort Wayne, Ind. The following sisters and a brother surviving, reside in Waynesboro, Pa,: Mrs. W. O. Winger, Mrs. Mary Gordon and Edward Henneberger.   Submitted by Dick Kearns

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